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WWE PRESIDENT NICK KHAN DISCUSSES WHY SUMMERSLAM IS ON A SATURDAY, ROMAN VS. CENA AND MORE

Nick Khan did an interview with Variety to talk about SummerSlam. 

Previewing Reigns vs. Cena: “As you know, your villain is only as good as your hero, and your hero is only as good as your villain. So with Roman being on such a tear and being such a monster heel, it only made sense for one of our greatest faces of all time to come back. We think John has had an extremely busy summer [promoting “F9” and “Suicide Squad”]. He was gracious enough to not only do all of our televised shows, including ‘SummerSlam,’ but all of our non-televised shows as well. So he’s been working his ass off to perform for our fans and to work with us and we greatly appreciate that.”

Why SummerSlam is being held in a football stadium: “Typically, we only do one football stadium show a year, and that’s WrestleMania. Because there was a limited capacity in Tampa in April when we did it, that was a two night event. We haven’t been on the west coast in over 20 months, so it was important to us to give our fans the big stadium atmosphere at least once this year in a full setting. So with over 45,000 tickets sold…we feel like it’s going to be a fun event for everybody.”

SummerSlam being held on a Saturday so fans can have the full Vegas experience: “Most of our pay-per-views have been on Sunday nights and then ‘Monday Night Raw’ obviously on Mondays. So we don’t believe there’s a lot of people from out of state who say, ‘Oh my god, let’s go to Vegas. Let’s go crazy on a Sunday.’ Or ‘Let’s go to Vegas and go crazy on a Monday,’ or even Friday Smackdown, ‘Let’s go to Vegas, let’s land by 3pm local time and be in our seats by 5pm local and go crazy.’ It just doesn’t work like that there.”

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